Archive for the 'Lecture' Category

I’ve just got back from a lecture by Martin Rees (of Astronomer Royal fame) at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. What an interesting speaker he is! Some thought provoking questions were raised such as – could there be numerous Big Bangs and multiple universes? He talked of the horizon of what we could see and […]

An amazing public lecture at Lady Mitchell Hall given last night as part of the International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology – COSMO 2013. There was an astonishing line-up of three great physics Professors – Andrew Liddle, Brian Cox and Stephen Hawkings. Andrew Liddle a theoretical physicist talked to us about the recent PLANCK […]

Spent a satisfying Saturday afternoon with Andres at a talk on Samuel Butler in the newly refurbished Divinity School at St Johns. The college has a large collection on the Victorian art critic, photographer and writer and at the moment there is a display in the Old Library. Currently there is a two year project […]

Wow! If you get the chance to go to a lecture given by Prof Monica Grady you should do it. She has a wonderful accessible and interesting style of talking. I sat in one of the Physic Building Lecture theatres at Leicester Uni today for over an hour completely enthralled by sciencey stuff! Who would […]

The Leicester Uni Victorian Study Centre Lecture laid on its annual lecture this evening at – “Creative Destruction” in the Victorian City’, given by Professor Peter Mandler of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Fascinating stuff. I was particularly intrigued by the tales of C19th railway companies buying up large swathes of land in the centres […]